terrorism

On the morning of August 14, 2018, British citizens awoke to another terrorist attack on their soil—the fifth in just eighteen months. The scene was familiar: a truck swerving into the opposite lane and slamming into passing...

On the afternoon of October 31, 2017, a man drove a pickup onto a protected bike lane along New York City’s Westside Highway, killing eight and injuring another twelve. It was the latest in a string of “low-tech” terror attacks...

On November 25th, militants detonated a bomb inside a Sinai Peninsula mosque and gunned down those trying to flee. More than 300 people were killed in what is now described as the worst terrorist attack in Egypt’s modern history....

In August 2017, Spain became the latest European target of terrorism when a Moroccan-born man struck pedestrians with a van in Barcelona, killing 14 people and injuring dozens of others. Unlike many of the country’s European...

A sophisticated computer virus swept through Ukraine in June, wreaking havoc on systems serving the private sector and shutting down critical civil infrastructure – locking several government ministries out of their files,...

From Nigeria’s Boko Haram, to Al Qaeda, to ISIS, one commonality that links terrorist and extremist groups is their malicious assaults on the rights of women and girls. However, while women and girls are often the first targets...

The recent attack on the St. Petersburg metro system left 14 dead and many wounded. The bomber, a Russian citizen of Kyrgyz origin, was among those killed in the apparent suicide blast and only failed to kill more after a second...

A few months ago, I wrote an article for Charged Affairs examining how a U.S. Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) that incorporates a version of World War II’s...

President Trump’s first few weeks in office were marred by controversy over his executive order, called a “Muslim ban” by critics, which barred citizens of seven majority Muslim countries from the country for 90 days and...